nearing the end...

Seriously considering bathing the kids before supper tonight :)  They had a bath Friday, not Saturday, not yesterday, but they's had an awful lot of play time outside...  And tonight we won't likely be home until after bedtime tonight, so yeah.  We'll maybe do a bath before supper.

Last night Hubby asked me a question as I lay on the couch downstairs experiencing some pretty intense pre-labour as he was doing his floor exercises and we were watching a bit of TV.  "What did we have on our first date?"  My thought "Were did that come from?  How could I forget?"  So I responded "We split a taco salad at Moxie's, and had the Banana Xiango for dessert."  He said he'd never forget that either.  It was August 23rd (Hubby's brother's birthday, coincidentally) 2002.  Ten years this summer.  Three years later we got married, a year after that our eldest was born.  Alot has happened in the last decade, alot of moves, alot of babies...

As I'm nearing the end of this pregnancy, I'm noticing alot of people getting anxious.  This is my first one where the whole time has been spent in a single congregation.  Every week, I have people (mostly women, some who've never had children of their own, some who've had nearly a dozen) ask if I was still here with baby inside.  For the last few weeks I've had questions of what gender I think it will be, theories about what gender it will be, guesses as to when I'll finally go into labour (bearing in mind that if I add all the days overdue I was with the boys, subtract the four days early the Girl was, and divide by three to get the average, I could still expect to go at least a week overdue with this one), asking how I'm managing at the end here, do we have people lined up to call for the big day, back up plans....  All I can really say is that it's interesting to hear these anxieties.  For as much as I was obsessing about getting things ready and fearing I'd go into labour early, I can really say that I'm not that concerned.  I'm a bit concerned to see how the Girl is going to adapt to a new baby....  That'll be interesting.

The crib is up, the car seat is dug out (not set up), and the bassinet is accessible.  Baby clothes are washed and folded, my hospital bag is (more or less) ready to go, and every night Boy2 asks if I know when Baby will be coming out.  Every slight gasp and twinge I express is met with concern from both Hubby and the Boy.  It's kinda cute, the attention I get from the Boy.

Hubby went away and is safely back again.  I think he's planning on blogging the happenings from Synod Convention in the next week, so if you are interested in what went on in Camrose last week, you can check him out.  This is (hopefully) his last really busy week before winding down for the summer.  He has meetings every night this week (except maybe Friday) and a wedding on Saturday.  Then nothing (again hopefully) until after the Baby is born.  He's missed having the evenings to spend with the kids and I and we've been missing him too.  It's been a very nice day today with nothing but puttering about and going to the park to worry about.  He was even able to doze in the sun this afternoon while the kids played out there :)

I will get some more pictures up, I promise.  As well as a video or two...  Just have to motivate myself to sit down with the camera at the computer.